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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Hey, Robin, jolly Robin

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,
Tell me how thy lady does.
My lady is unkind, perdy.
Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,
Tell me why is she so?
She loves another, another.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Korngold

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Text Authorship:

by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act IV, Scene 2 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "Hey, Robin", op. 29 no. 4, published 1937 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of the Clown, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Hei, Kehlchen", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 29

Hei, Kehlchen

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Hei, Kehlchen, muntres Kehlchen,
sag mir, wie's der Gattin geht.
Mein Weibchen ist gemein, fürwahr.
Hei, Kehlchen, muntres Kehlchen.
sag mir, warum sie's ist?
Sie liebt 'nen Andern, 'nen Andern.

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2013 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act IV, Scene 2
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This text was added to the website: 2013-04-10
Line count: 6
Word count: 30